€ char is shown as ? in UTF8 Output

Question

I have reworked a website and now it is xhtml valid etc and using UTF8. Everything is fine, but if anywhere in the Database is a Euro-char it is just displayed as a questionmark.

What would be the right way to fix this? As output is done by Typo3 i cant change much about that.

Answer 1

Try executing these queries before the queries that fetch data:

SET NAMES utf8
SET CHARACTER SET utf8